ETHIOPIA - Danakil depression - Dallol

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We have travelled extensively during the past 2 years (2011 and 2012) throughout Ethiopia on an extraordinary photographic journey. Our focus has been the collecting of photographs as testimonies of a splendid and remote vanishing world, be it natural or cultural. We have independently travelled with our own car through the most remote areas of this East African mysterious land, all the way into difficultly accessible areas, sometimes even into forbidden zones under military escorts (esp. deep into the Danakil Depression bordering Eritrea and South Omo Valley) in order to get as close as one can get to shoot both eye and soul-catching images.

Afar workers leave the salt extraction fields of the Danakil Depression with endless caravans of camels and donkeys for their long and exhausting journey to deliver the extracted salt to the city of Mekele

Back and forth from the town of Bere Ale and the Danakil Depression, men and camels have been circulating on this salt-road for over 3,000 years.

Bishofite, an extremely rare substance, emerges from the ground and expands over the salted ground of the Danakil Depression.

Flows of liquid green 12O°C-heated molten Bishofite, an extremely rare substance, emerge from the oxidized salt surface of the Danakil Depression and dry-up in seconds into a waxy floor.

Salt and sulfur made landscape of the geothermal field of Mount Dallol

A phreatic eruption opened the Black Lake in 1926, amidst this vast expanse of iron-red salt surrounded by the tall saline pitons of Mount Dallol.